it is still very dangerous. and from now until the storm is well past, you just have to shelter in place. you need to stay wherever you are. let me repeat that, you have to stay wherever you are. so don't call 911, unless it is a life-threatening emergency. you're not going to get better service and you're just keeping others who may have a life-threatening emergency from getting service. stay off the roads. you getting stuck just keeps the emergency vehicles from getting to help people and it may be your family that needs the help. the same thing i've said before still goes, stay away from windows, close the drapes. if water is coming into your home, go to the highest area. it is very important that you follow these instructions. it could save your life, or the life of a fellow new yorker. these are not games. we've said from the very beginning, this is a once in a long time storm. the surge is very high. we expected it to be high. it's in fact slightly higher

than what was forecasted by those that talked about the highest estimate. we have to get the emergency services to where they are needed. that means we've got to know where the emergencies are. if you're clogging 911, we can't find that out and then we've got to get the personnel to the people who really need help. if your cars are blocking the roads, we can't do that. stolt the current weather, the rain i'm happy to say has passed and moved to our west. so we don't anticipate anything more than a few showers from now on. in terms of the winds, they should go below gale force in the next few hours. they've already started to drop. as for the storm surge, a very big part of it will be over in the next couple of hours. the high tide was at roughly 8:15. it is now 10:00. and next low tide is at 6:00 in the morning. so we're heading down, and you'll see a lot of the roads that have currently flooded, the water will drain off.

most new yorkers have followed our advice. the cooperation we received really has been great. but not everybody has cooperated. by midnight tonight, we expect the surge to recede. and we'll be able to get to people who need the help. things have gotten tough, but we're going to get through this together. as the city always does. let me summarize for our spanish speakers in our audience. [ speaking spanish ] >> the message is, one more time, don't call 911 unless it's a real life-threatening situation. >> i'm in as bury park.

i'm here with rob marciano. up in manhattan, we're seeing severe flooding in a number of areas. we just heard from mayor michael bloomberg. most of the tunnels going into new york have been closed. conflicting information on the lincoln tunnels. i'm not sure if that's open yet or not. but all the bridges and most of the tunnels are certainly closed. at this point, we're seeing less winds here. it's died down a little bit. at least we were able to get the satellite dish up. i'm told we're surrounded by water right now. >> this is what a lot of people up and down the shore are seeing right now. the storm walls have been breached. once you get past the sand dunes, are then at or slightly below sea level. what's scary, as bad as this is here, it almost feels like a situation where mississippi just got hammered with the surge and

the wind. but further away, in new orleans, that city started to fill with water. that's kind of what we're seeing in lower manhattan right now, as some of the subways continue to fill with water. >> we're getting word that in the battery tunnel, there was four feet of water in some parts of the battery tunnel for the east river. and obviously lower manhattan. we're seeing water pouring into several subway stops in lower manhattan. obviously subways were shut down last night. actually, danfield is down in lower manhattan. where are you right now and what are you seeing around you? >> anderson, i'm in battery park city, and i've been here all day. i'll tell you what, what i'm real happy to report is the water is receding. i'll tell you what, it was about two feet higher an hour ago, but we are really above flood stage at this point still. i want to update you on bad news as well that we've been given from new jersey, two deaths in new jersey.

we also had that one death we told you about in queens as well. and then also, one person killed in connecticut. two people injured. sadly they were leaving their house apparently because their power was out to go to a neighbor and a tree fell. so those are the fatalities i can tell you right now. i heard you speaking earlier about the tunnels. earlier we heard all of the tunnels were closed. i can report that to you at least. i would not imagine they would have opened since that time. but one thing we were somewhat concerned about is there are a number of television crews coming to you from this location. given the fact i'm standing in the hudson river, it's hard to believe that, but this is relatively high ground in manhattan. we got stuck here as well. every road out of this location is flooded. so we're a bit concerned about the crews here. and of course, this is all mandatory evacuation zone. earlier you could see flashes of light behind me. you can see the power on in a

lot of those buildings. thoselashes of light while they may have looked like lightning were in fact transformers going off. i heard mayor corey booker talking about the loss of power and the water lapping up and over the sides. not surprising. we're seeing it here, too. see if we can pan over here as well. this is a part of manhattan, and one of my colleagues is working beside me, this is a part of manhattan that you don't normally see it this black. but the power is out to most of southern manhattan. most of the lights you see are likely generators in those buildings. we do know there are some people in the buildings behind me. this is a tricky shot, but if you can just swing up behind you to see the people who are living -- these are normally beautiful apartments down in southern manhattan looking into the hudson river and across to jersey. you can just see a couple of people who decided to tough it out and stay here in their apartments. but the wind, the tough winds are yet to come, anderson.

>> actually, thank you. i'm sorry. i'm having trouble hearing you. the mayor of atlantic city is joining us on the phone. what is the situation you're seeing right now in atlantic city? >> i'm sorry, we've lost contact there. let's check in with ali velshi. ali, what is the situation? >> anderson, we have got the water levels rising. we should have peaked about 15

minutes ago. we're still seeing very high water levels. i'm substantially closer to the camera than i was when i last talked to you. so we are not seeing any receding of the water levels. we also think that the winds are going to keep on going, probably for another hour and a half or two before we have now seen the back end of this storm. and it starts to move inland. so folks in philadelphia are probably expecting to have this -- have the worst part of it hit in the next few hours. and then you're going to start to see the flooding moving inland. all right, we've got stuff blowing around over here. the winds have picked up around here again. there is more rain, as the mayor was going to tell you. we've got a 400 people, 500 people in shelters here. everybody else is at home. there is a curfew in place. no one is allowed out. there's no traveling. you couldn't get out of here if you tried anyway. as you can see, i'm downtown. this isn't some point we selected because there's a lot of water. this is downtown atlantic city. i'm now up to my knees.

but if i walk about 100 feet back there, i'll be up to my waist in water. so the situation here is not improving just yet. for anybody watching this, this is important to understand. as this moves inland, it's not going to be better off. just because you're seeing it calm down over here does not mean it's going to be better off. you're covering it in new york. but in philadelphia there's still going to be a lot more to come. there are still a lot of flooding concerns and low-lying areas. we're watching that very carefully as well. in atlantic city, we've still got high winds, we've still got a lot of ocean that's come into downtown and it's still a very dangerous situation here. we do have reports of some trees down and the power lines down in atlantic city, anderson. >> ali, the mayor of atlantic city came under stiff criticism, governor christie he told people mandatory evacuation, he felt the mayor did not support that. and encouraged people to stay in

place, stay in that area. governor christie annoyed about that, and said now is not the time to try to get out, just shelter in place. trying to get emergency workers to people in emergencies if they can. but he didn't feel like it w was -- chad myers is joining us. i'm here with rob marciano. we're seeing more or less -- there's a lot of debris flying around. >> the rain has been a big player ahead of this n the sout southern jersey, delmarva area, including parts of philadelphia, d.c. got a tremendous amount of rainfall. now the eastern half of the storm is mostly -- this is a signature for experiences here on the ground. the wind not only cold, but very erratic, hard to brace against

this wind. now the debris continues fly around here. the water that has overtopped the wharf right here is not going to drain very quickly. even though they prepared for that. it's going to be here for quite some time. >> we have the atlantic city mayor joining us on the phone. mr. mayor, i'm sorry we lost contact with you before. governor christie was critical of some of the decisions you made earlier. i'm wondering if you want to respond to what he said. he was critical of some people still encouraged to go to shelters. >> let me say this, the governor is ill advised and misinformed. this is not the time, i do not wish to engage the governor in a verbal joust. there will be plenty of time for finger pointing and monday morning quarterbacking. right now my focus is where it should be, the residents of atlantic city, making sure that all of the resources we have in the city of atlantic city are made available to them. and that we get them to a safe place and keep them as safe as

we possibly can until this thing is over with. >> mr. mayor, we've been hearing from the -- from new york and also the mayor in newark, the 911 calls have been skyrocketing. some calling unnecessarily. are you having similar problems in atlantic city? >> i'm sorry, would you repeat that, please? you're kind of breaking up. >> yeah. in new york, and newark, they're having problems with too many people calling 911. some of them not even emergencies. are you facing that problem right now? >> no, i have not been given any information in that regard. i cannot say that we're experiencing that kind of problem in the city of atlantic city. >> okay. what's your number one concern right now? what are you watching the most closely? >> well, right now we're keeping our fingers crossed and saying prayerful. the safety of our residents, we don't want toxperience any loss of life. we d't nt to exrience any injuries. we're just doing all that we can to keep people out of harm's way

and to keep them as safe as we possibly can. >> mr. mayor, i appreciate your time tonight. we'll let you go. thank you very much. we're going to take a short break. we'll talk to chad myers to give us an overview of where the worst of it is going to be in this area. we'll be right back.

welcome back to our continuing coverage. we're coming to you live from asbury park. a lot of wind swirling around. although it's dark, because of lost power for most of the area, the entire region is covered in water. we're about two blocks from the

boardwalk. and it is really just all water as far as the eye can see. we're going to go to chad myers in just a moment. but i want to show you a picture of the hoboken, i believe the subway train station, a shot of water pouring down into not only in hoboken, but lower manhattan as well. water in battery tunnels in new york. we believe all the tunnels into new york are shut down. i had heard conflicting information about the lincoln tunnel. i know for a fact all the other tunnels are certainly shut down. i would think the lincoln tunnel is as well. chad myers joining us from the severe weather center. chad, if you could give us a big picture of where this thing is and how much longer it's going to be where it is. >> not much longer to philadelphia. still 80 miles per hour somewhere in that center. also big wind gusts away from the center as well. you are right about there. you are seeing a big area of squall, that squall line going

to come right through you and increase your winds in about 20 or 30 minutes. we'll have to watch that with the satellite truck as those winds increase significantly. let's just pan out and give you a bird's-eye view of what's going on. back out to the west, winds gusting to 66 miles per hour in cleveland. it's snowing in west virginia. and also into virginia. we'll kind of pan you across here to take you all the way down to virginia. seeing winds in richmond over 60. same story here in the delmarva, with winds blowing offshore here, onshore here. the wind finally now calming down a little bit on easter long island. but we still have squalls in southern vermont and new hampshire. this is far from over. we're still 48 hours from being over. right now, what's kind of over is the flooding in battery park. still very high. don't get me wrong. it's way over flood stage. but anderson, what we're seeing now is the low tide beginning to come in. the high tide is over. low tide starting to go out. the water level is going out. it is still three feet above any

record stage we've seen before, so the flooding is still occurring. there's an awful lot of water going down in the tunnels. and we heard that they said they can pump out millions of gallons of water. they're trying to keep the water out. water coming in, water's going out. that's always the case when you have water coming into a big city like we have here. >> reporter: chad, that's certainly good news here. i'm here with rob marciano, jump in whenever you want. water coming in, water levels going down. are we seeing the peak of flooding in lower manhattan? >> it appears so. it appears the 13.88, which is now our new record, the old record was 10.2, it looks like that water will begin to recede. it will recede all the way to the bottom of the low tide. and then go back up again in the top part of the high tide. which is still coming up. we have two cycles every day.

so here we go. we'll have to see what happens at this point in time. the next cycle will be the higher -- this is a very high tide system, because it is a full moon. with a full moon on one side and sun on the other, you get the higher tides. that's what we have. not only do we have a huge hurricane running onshore in new jersey, we've had the high tides with the super high tides with the moon as well, anderson. >> reporter: rob, i'm wondering, you've covered a lot of these things. how does it compare? >> i've had a hard time today trying to put any context and relate it to something i've seen before. and it's just hard to put into words. >> it's a strange combination. >> it's a strange combination. we saw that on the weather maps for the past five days. but i also felt it on the ground, experiencing the storm. and seeing the reports coming in. and hearing reports coming in. it's just phenomenal to me

what's been going on. i'm hearing in my ear now you're going to see pictures of lower manhattan. >> i want to check in with doug who is our producer in lower manhattan. doug, can you give an overview of what you're seeing, from that vantage point in lower manhattan? >> yeah, anderson, i was down here at em barco street. i've got this fantastic view down here. it's just pure blackness across times square. i'm right next to the world trade center memorial. floodwaters have come up past the west side highway. i'm a few blocks actually near ashley banfield. i'm in the same vicinity. what i can see, they haven't really declined from that area. it's an eerie situation.

the only things with light are right around the 9/11 memorial, the freedom tower, the new world trade center did have power for an extended period and that's all dark now. and just scattered bits and pieces of light here and there. just eerie sensation of being down here. >> doug, there were earlier reports that the new york stock exchange had taken on some three feet of water. i've just been told that those reports are not true. do you want to emphasize those reports are not true, from the information we have that the new york stock exchange did not take on three feet of water. obviously there are problems elsewhere in lower manhattan. ashleigh banfield is joining us now. in case you didn't hear that, the new york stock exchange has not taken on three feet of water. there were earlier reports that that had happened. >> we have seen those reports. we didn't report them. and sure enough, they didn't come true. but here's something remarkable,

anderson. i can see the edge of this boardwalk again. this water is receding before our very eyes. i want to tell you, about ten minutes ago, this was still ankle deep. i'm going to walk right up to the staircase. five minutes ago it was right up to here. check this out. so that is a solid foot and a half to two feet that receded in just 15 minutes. when chad said this tide is going out, tide is going out. and here's another bizarre thing, anderson. it was so much windier and so much more brisk and difficult to report five, six hours ago than it is now. i did talk to chad about that earlier and he said, don't get too confident. but it is remarkable the difference and how quickly this water's going away. >> that is certainly more good news. again, the situation here in asbury park, that we're still having heavy winds and water still -- the rain has really died down.

the wind must have died down because we're able to be on air and have the satellite truck up. whereas in the 8:00 hour, we couldn't get people on the phone. >> it's made landfall. some of its energy will be sapped from that. this is more of a winter storm. it's going to have energy beyond landfall. we can be encouraged by the slight decreasing wind. we can be encouraged by the nonrise, no longer rise in the water levels. but a lot of days ahead. >> our coverage continues in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪

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welcome back. we're reporting from asbury park. i'm here with rob marciano. i want to take a look at images recorded earlier. a transformer blowing in the lower east side. i want to bring in chad myers. chad, tell us what we're seeing. we've seen a lot of them blow in asbury park. i can't see the video. what are we showing? >> obviously water and electricity don't mix. especially saltwater and electricity don't mix. it's that color, it's that glow, the color that you would see when a tornado would roll

through and knock down a transformer or power line. it's that power line flash that is so reminiscent of wires coming apart and electricity getting out in the air and those lights sparking in that color. it's an eerie color. >> i'm told there are ten confirmed deaths in the united states. more deaths obviously in cuba, jamaica, also in haiti before the storm even arrived in the u.s. so far, ten confirmed deaths. one in queens. a person, a man was hit, i believe the earlier report by a falling tree. no doubt in daylight we'll know a lot more in terms of the total number of deaths related to the storm. also injuries, house and property damage. >> sadly, with a storm of this magnitude, that's just going to happen. no matter how diligent and careful people are, a storm of this strength and size, you've just got to have that

unfortunately. what's happened in atlantic city is incredible, the boardwalk down there, the report alli velshi's been doing all day long is incredible. >> ali, we talked to the mayor a short time ago. he wanted to respond to what governor christie said about him. he said this is not the time to be pointing fingers. in atlantic city, are you seeing any of that water that you've been in the midst of all day long? are you seeing any of it recede? >> not receding. it's not getting higher. i've been coming out every ten or 15 minutes. it's not higher than it was the last time i talked to you a few minutes ago. i will say it is substantially choppier. it not feels like i'm standing in an intersection in downtown atlantic city, it feels like i'm standing 100 feet into the ocean. these are real waves coming along. you can see them bowing behind me. it's picked up. the wind has picked up significantly. i saw a transformer blow a few minutes ago a little bit to the north of here. there's a lot more wind

activity. we had about two hours of calm here where we could actually see the sky. we don't now. we've got full cover. we're not getting a lot of rain here. it does not seem like the water levels are going up. but it is still very windy, very cold. nobody on the streets. even fewer official cars like fire department and police department. people are home. the city is under official curfew. very interesting conversation you had with the mayor. he had sharp words for chris christie who had sharp words for him earlier in the evening whether or not people should have left or stayed as it got worse in atlantic city. but i have to tell you, since 3:00 this afternoon, it got pretty dicey about people leaving. they were told if they hadn't left yet, get to high ground or stay in your houses. unless it's something you need 911 for, don't call. we're not going to get to you until morning. utility crews around here, as i said, we did see a transformer blow.

this area we're in right now has no electricity. it went out a few hours ago. you can see behind me, you can still see the boardwalk lit up. the grid on that side is working. chad can tell you, the wind has picked up here quite a bit in the last half hour, anderson. >> about how far are you from the boardwalk right now, ali? >> if you can see the lights behind me, the traffic lights, the red lights -- hold on. the traffic lights behind me, probably 3/4 of a mile. that's the end of the road. that's where the hotels are. caesar's is right there and the boardwalk is right behind them. we're less than a mile right east to the boardwalk. i was in the boardwalk earlier. no real damage. i know there was about 50 feet of boardwalk that had been r ripped up a little bit. nothing serious. very heavy waves coming up against the piers.

of course, they seem to have overtopped them, because what i've got all around me in the water, which has been clear water all day, is now vegetation, a lot of junk around me. it's probably toppled a lot of stuff. i'm going to move in a little closer before it topples me. >> ali is probably describing a scene that's echoed up and down the jersey shore right now, where you have board walks, barrier islands that have been breeched. that's going to be very difficult to drain, ali. this choppy water that you're surrounded by, it's probably going to be there for some time. >> ali, do you have any sense of how far the water goes inland? >> no, i don't. i can't tell -- i know when we drove into atlantic city, several hours ago, it looked like we were within an hour of -- looked like we were within an hour of topping the road that came in, the atlantic parkway,

atlantic city expressway. so that must have been covered a while ago. a little bit of high land in downtown. that's where we parked our vehicles. my camera that's shooting this is parked on a little bit of dry land. probably about three feet higher than where i am right now. but everything downtown has just got the ocean running all over it. there's no dry land between here and the ocean at all. >> ali, you stay safe. it's getting bad out there. stay safe. we'll come back to you when we can. let's check in with the governor of maryland, martin o'malley. governor o'malley, i appreciate you joining us. i know you've been busy. how are things in your state? >> we seem to be right in the middle of this thing, anderson. ocean city is getting slammed right now. we have power outages climbing to above 300,000 people without power and we expect that to go up to 1 million. it's the sound of trees cracking all over maryland, becomes the

sound of this dark and stormy evening. we've had some inundated areas inside the bay. and we'll be watching for that tidal flooding. phenomenal amount of rain. in somerset county almost 13 inches of rain. it's been a rough day. we expect a rougher night. >> i assume it's too dangerous right now to have emergency crews out there. is everybody just kind of staying in for now? >> yes. for the most part. i mean, in some areas of the -- we leave that call to the local first responders. but in most areas, yes, the sort of rescue and emergency operations, you know, we'll have to suspend until the wind dies down because it's just too dangerous to be out there. you know, there are exceptions to that rule, but in terms of any sort of big operations, this is hunker down time. and most everybody is just trying to stay safe. and weather this thing.

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there are still people in asbury park. there's some higher elevations, higher areas -- whoa, there we go. higher areas. we were actually able to get pizza at a restaurant that was open earlier. this entire area, this is about seven or eight feet of the see foam stuff. looks like it's snowing almost.

never seen anything like this. that situation changed very fast. we're live in asbury park. we're probably about 1,000 feet or so from the boardwalk, about two blocks or so from the boardwalk where we shot that hours ago. just as it was starting to get dark. what changed about an hour after we shot that is basically those -- the boardwalk was completely breached by water. and water covering this entire two-block area. we're now basically surrounded by water, it's about waist high earlier. we haven't gone out there in quite some time because there's a lot of debris whipped around in this wind, circling around. a lot of beer cans. we've seen aluminum siding and the like. it's getting pretty dangerous out there, so rob marciano and i are basically between these two suvs, which we feel is a pretty good safe location. also, we're very close to a

building we can run into if necessary. a lot happening on the island of manhattan to bring you up to date on. we've seen flooding on the fdr drive on the east side. lower east side of manhattan. we've seen flooding in a number of subway stations as well. water pouring down. we're told all tunnels are closed, except for the lincoln tunnel. lincoln tunnel last report i had is still open. bridges obviously shut down as well. let's check in with our producer who is in the area near sort of west village meat packing district. rose, where are you exactly and what are you seeing? >> i'm in the meat packing district, which is sort of on the west side near the hudson river. and if you look at an old map of manhattan, you would see there's about two blocks of manhattan all the way from battery park to the west side that used to be beachfront. it's been reclaimed as landfall. they decided to reclaim what the city took.

the water has overflowed the banks of the hudson river, gone through the waterfront park, crossed over the highway and come two blocks inland to stop. it's almost as if there was a beachfront there now. there's cars that are partially submerged. there's trees that are down on top of cars. you earlier today had people going around outside, playing in the wind. now it's completely dark. there's absolutely nobody outside. the police a little bit earlier were driving up and down the streets where the water comes up to, and had bull horns telling people if you're on the first floor, you should get out, evacuate, move to higher ground. and most people scrambled. >> rose, do you have any idea how far the water goes from the hudson eastward? >> reporter: it comes up about, i'd say a few blocks, almost two

blocks, depending where you, some places more, some places a little bit less. the basement situation is very, very bad. i mean, really, right now, the wind has died down quite a bit and the water's just sitting there. so you have this sense maybe it's over, you start to see the water recede a little bit. but when you go into the basements of some of these buildings, they're completely flooded. and because the power is out, there's no way to pump the water out. when you talk to some of the building owners around here, they're much more concerned now than they were when the water first rushed in. because now maybe they're looking at hours of several feet of water in their basement. a lot of these old buildings have boilers in the basement, that's where the phone lines are. it causes quite a bit of damage. >> rose, stay safe. thank you for your report. we'll continue to check in with you. i want to go to the mayor of hoboken, don zimmer who we talked to earlier.

mayor, it's rob marciano and anderson cooper here in asbury park. you were very concerned about water pouring over from the hudson. what are you seeing now in hoboken? is the water still coming or is it starting to recede at all is this. >> unforth in thely it's still coming up. we're filling up like a bathtub here in hoboken. it's the north end and south end of hoboken. we've still got four live wires. pse&g cannot get into the city. we just put out one fire but got calls from concerned residents of fires in other buildings and we literally cannot get to them. we've called in the national guard hoping they can get here as soon as possible. another fire department was trying to come in, and they cannot get into our city right now. all entrances to hoboken are blocked, except for the vehicles that the national guard, deuce and a quarter is what we're looking for to make sure we can get to our residents and make

sure they're safe. the big concern right now is making sure that people stay inside, like i said, we've got four potentially live wires in floodwaters. and really, right now, there's nothing that we can do about it. we can't get pse&g in here. so we're concerned about anybody walking out and going into the floodwaters. really concerned about people on the street level apartments. and hopefully they have gone up to their neighbors, and they're out of -- there's a lot of apartments i'm sure that are flooded right now. just because of, again, the hudson river has breached the city of hoboken from the north end and also from the south end. so we're hunkering down. i'm sorry? >> we're seeing a still photo of water pouring into a path train. do you have any sense of how much water is already in the train system there, in the path system in hoboken? >> i don't know how much.

i can tell you that looking at the other streets, i'm sure it's quite a bit. but i'm ret i not sure what those levels are. but we knew this morning that, i mean, the waters came up to the path train. and it didn't go in this morning. but we were expecting that it would go in. i can't tell you exactly what the levels are right now. but i imagine it's pretty significant, given that probably half of hoboken is flooded right now as the hudson comes in there the north and south end of our city. >> wow. >> mayor, can you tell us, just how much of your infrastructure is submerged, is being flooded right now? how much of that flooding is going to affect the infrastructure of hoboken come tomorrow and later this week? >> well, i mean, i'd say, like i said, it's probably half of the city is flooded right now. we had to evacuate two of our fire stations. we evacuated our municipal

garage. so city hall is not flooded right now, and we do have other operating fire stations. but it's hitting -- we're a small town of 50,000 people, and it's hard right now. we're really concerned about the safety of residents at this time. >> and the word, as you said, mayor, just stay where you are, stay in place. mayor zimmer, i appreciate your time tonight. i know you're incredibly busy. it will be a long night for the residents there, and throughout the area. and also lower manhattan. jason carroll is in lindenhurst, long island, where he's seen a lot of flooding and people who decided to stay in place. basically trying to leave after an hour or two of seeing the water rising. jason, are you seeing anything receding at all? >> we're still waiting for the water to recede. it certainly hasn't happened yet. i'm sure it will happen. i'm sure it will happen slowly.

montauk highway, you can still see emergency vehicles have made their way through here. they've blocked off the other end, just about a half mile down, anderson. this whole section of montauk highway is just flooded out. not only are they dealing with flooding here, but fires as well. just within the past hour, fire broke out just to our right. too dark to see now. emergency crews, volunteer fire force, was able to get out there, put that fire out. we're told at least five fires in this area just tonight. i can tell you, anderson, just from being in lindenhurst throughout the day, i can tell you it's got to be dozens of homes that are experiencing flooding. earlier tonight, we just ran into some of the residents who made a decision at the very last minute to get out of dodge, so to speak. they said their home had just become too flooded. i think by tomorrow morning, we're going to see a lot of extensive flood damage in lindenhurst.

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the last two hours or so. >> we've got gusts. you can see them in the pack of the shot every few seconds, gusts every few seconds. the sustained winds don't seem terribly strong. i'm now sort of anchored to something, holding on in case a gust comes through. it's seawater. yeah, it seems to be around the same place it was when i talked to you about 1 minutes ago. it doesn't seem to be rising. but we definitely did get the back end of the storm in the last hour. prior to that, we had a couple of hours where it was calmer. we were at the center of the storm as jason was getting pelted, as you guys were getting pelted and ashleigh banfield and aaron. we're probably seeing, i guess, the back end and we're probably halfway through that right now. there are these remarkable gusts. i saw a transformer go a little while ago. you can see from the vegetation in the water here that clearly

we've overtopped the barriers on the ocean which is just down the road there. you can see the lights at the end of the road as far as you can see. there's a traffic light changing from red. it's red right now. just beyond that is the ocean. so the ocean has come over. we're in downtown atlantic city. it is definitely fully flooded. there are some high points in the city, but we're at least a mile in. and that much of the city is flooded. so nobody moving around here. there is a full curfew in effect. if you're on the streets, you're in breach of the law. can't go anywhere. they are asking people, again, wait until morning. if you've got any big problems, that's when rescue crews will be out. that's when the electrical crews will be out. for the moment, you've just got to sit down and deal with these gusts. we've got another one coming in right now, anderson. >> rob, there's still a lot of areas that we haven't heard from. we don't know about -- i have a house out in west hampton clog area. i saw this afternoon pictures of extensive flooding there. but again, we don't know the

damage. >> we can look at history. and one storm we compared this to is 1992, a big nor'easter then that flooded parts of battery park. that flooded parts of fdr drive. that flooded parts of the runways. you would think that we're going to see some people we haven't heard from on long island, along long island sound where they are probably seeing tremendous storm surge there and likely damage. those are the places tomorrow morning when the sun comes up that we get reports in, that we'll see this expand further. >> the flooding we know, the newark airport is shut down, kenny airport is shut down as well. two runways out at laguardia. chad myers, what are you going to be watching closely over the next couple of hours? >> the last advisory for this hurricane, now super storm

sandy, is down to 75 miles per hour. so technically still hurricane force winds. but because the storm does not have an eye, it's not in the water, it's no longer a hurricane, it's actually a cold storm, cold enough to make an awful lot of snow in west virginia, virginia, all the ray down to tennessee and north korea mountains. winds as far west as cleveland at 66 miles per hour. some of the other obviously bigger numbers were farther off to the east. the biggest number, mount washington, new hampshire. you would expect that. very high peak there. in new hampshire. 136 miles per hour. sandy hook, not that far from where you are right now, 87. and surf city, new jersey, at 89-mile-per-hour wind gusts. the biggest number when it comes to rainfall is wildwood, that's only about 15 miles from where ali velshi is. it was 11.62 inches of rainfall there. the rain continues to blow water here, depending on where your

high tide is, you will continue to go up to high tide. and then begin to go down. we know this, even where at the battery, that the winds have calmed down just a few miles per hour, but the tide is going out. so that number was 13.88 feet. you can see that, 13.88, now down to 12.27. as ashleigh banfield showed you, and i can prove to you, it's down a foot and a half from where it is now. that's still at this point, this is still two feet above anyplace else it ever was in history, even with hurricane dawn. anderson? >> and tomorrow, there's going to be folks that are finally going to rest. they're going to wonder what they're going to wake up to tomorrow, in terms of wind speed, rain, and water on the ground, what are you going to tell them? >> you'll still have winds to 60 miles per hour throughout this storm. we're talking for another 36 hours, there will be

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